The following article is from New Dawn Magazine No.23
February - March 1994.

Recent developments with the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Asia-Pacific Economic Community
(APEC) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are
part of the push for a 'Global Plantation',
a one world economic system run by the 'free trade' imperatives
of multinational consortiums and international financiers.

With the consent of representatives of 116 nations, including
the enthusiastic endorsement of the Australian Government, the
GATT aims to put the nail in the coffin of national independence
and self-reliance. In the approving words of U.S. insider Strobe
Talbott the GATT will determine "trade, finance and
development for a united world."

Talbott bluntly spelt out the GATT agenda in an article for
TIME magazine entitled "The birth of the global
nation." Talbott predicted: "I'll bet that within the
next 100 years, nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all
states will recognize a single global authority. A phrase briefly
fashionable in the mid-20th century - 'citizen of the world' -
will have assumed real meaning."

Talbott echoes the sentiments of capitalist globalist
apologists like Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, writing
that national sovereignty is redundant in the New World Order. As
he sees it: "All countries are basically social
arrangements. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may
seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and
temporary."

Part of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a
plan to establish the World Trade Office (WTO). This
international governing body would 'police' a "world without
borders" and have the power to intervene in member nations'
internal affairs.

US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, briefing the press at
the conclusion of the GATT meeting in Brussels, Belgium, said how
NAFTA and the Asia-Pacific Economic Community (APEC) will
"fit in" with GATT is still "to be decided."
But it is already "decided," according to an unnamed
member of his entourage.

In a move to allay public fears over the pace of the globalist
agenda, Kantor stated, "You can't achieve everything in your
first agreement."

Kantor, however, assured journalists the Clinton
Administration will move "expeditiously to expand
NAFTA" throughout the Western Hemisphere and also strive to
make APEC a "visible organization like NAFTA." David
Rockefeller previously expressed the view that NAFTA will expand
to include the entire hemisphere by the year 2000. Kantor's
words, and those of his staff, in fact followed the script laid
out in recent years by the Bilderberg group and Trilateral
Commission, drafted at their annual secret meetings.

Back in July, 1973 David
Rockefeller, Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, formed the
Trilateral Commission "to bring together the best brains in
the world...to foster closer cooperation among private citizens
of Western Europe, Japan and North America." These 'best
brains' and 'private citizens' were entrusted with the task of
developing plans for the world capitalist system. The agenda of
these super capitalists calls for the evolution of NAFTA into an
American Union similar to the European Union. APEC is to become
the "Pacific Union," the third great region of the
world organised for the convenience of global economic planning.

"The Asia-Pacific region should be a united one, not
divided," President Bill Clinton told the APEC meeting in
Seattle in November. Kim Young Sam, president of South Korea,
agreed stating that the APEC countries should "gradually
develop into an Asia-Pacific Economic Community".

Prime Minister Paul Keating and the Australian Government have
repeatedly voiced their commitment to the economic and social
integration of Australia with Asia. This is an essential part of
the global capitalist agenda. The GATT, the most far-reaching
free-trade agreement in history, effectively destroys national
economies subjecting them to the imperatives of world trade and
the control of the plutocratic elites.

The Age newspaper on February 5 reported that, "An
official review of Australia's trade policies by GATT has
endorsed the Government's program of opening up the economy...The
200-page review, released by the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade, registers a tone of admiration and surprise at the
thoroughness with which Australia has unilaterally forced its
economy into world competition despite a severe recession, high
unemployment and a large current account deficit." The
Australian Government has forced the Australian working people to
endure the hardship resulting from its 'restructuring' of the
economy to suit the 'banana republic' scenario required by the
board rooms of Washington, London and Tokyo. Australia's
oligarchy is eager to prove its loyalty to the quickly emerging
'Global Plantation'.

For Australia the proverbial 'writing is on the wall'.
Fourteen years ago one commentator aptly noted: "Australia
is poised at a most dangerous moment in history. Strong pressures
are operating, which, if successful, would integrate it even
further into the world capitalist economy, increasing its
dependence, reducing its capacity for self-reliance, and
disintegrating its economy and society...Living standards are
being reduced, and more and more people fear economic insecurity.
Young people in particular are unable to see a future ahead of
them, and are fast becoming 'a lost generation'..."